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Rosovsky continues to stress that the Faculty vote that authorized implementation of the Core was only the first step. "What we're going into is what I call a controlled experiment," he says, citing the year of "lead time" built into the proposal, time that will allow for research of new course offerings. The Core committees created by the Faculty legislation will have to deal with two problems, he says: first, to examine the current General Education program, to discover what if any courses may be transferred into the Core; second, to create new courses, "particularly in areas where...
Attacking the larger problem of arbitrariness in the federal allocation process, Gibson served this year on a nine-member federal committee charged with revamping the system. The group's recommendations, completed in April, call in part for a "more standardized formula approach" to the problem of dividing funds between schools. Schools' applications will be based only on work-study figures for the year just completed, not on projections of need, which tend to be exaggerated. Gibson says the committee's recommendations will cut down on the grantsmanship involved in applying for work-study funds, and ensure a more equitable distribution...
Chavkin did not intend to be sensational. His book is meticulously researched and footnoted, and he was not altogether happy when his publisher, Houghton Mifflin, decided to call his book The Mind Stealers and splash that title in big, bold black letters across a bright red dust jacket. But Chavkin did intend his book to be a warning. He makes that clear at the end of his first chapter when he notes that the year the CIA started its massive MK-ULTRA program to develop mind-control techniques--1953--was the same year the U.S. signed the Nuremberg Code, prohibiting...
Members of the academic community should also fare well at the ceremony. Psychologist Erik H. Erikson looks like a sure winner, and no one should be surprised if classicist John H. Finley '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus, gets the call...
Neither Barbara Walters nor Barbara Stanwyck is given much of a shot this year, but Lew Brooks and retiring Div School Dean Krister Stendahl will probably get the call...